Music Restored: Exploring Czech Masterworks

This concert is included in these packages: Season Sampler.

James Conlon, Conductor
Music Restored Ensemble

James Conlon, one of today’s most versatile and respected conductors, leads the Music Restored Ensemble in a love letter to Bohemian melodies. The program begins with a piece from the godfather of Czech music himself. Dvořák’s serene Nocturne in B Major is a short lyrical work with hypnotic orchestration. The concert then turns to two 20th-century Czech composers whose personal and professional relationship often inspired each other’s work. In her tragically short career, Vítězslava Kaprálová wrote nearly 50 compositions brimming with humor, energy, and warmth—one of her most inspired works being the spirited piano concerto on this program. The concert concludes with an orchestral tour de force by Bohuslav Martinů, Kaprálová’s mentor, friend, and lover.

Presented as part of Music Restored: The Ziering-Conlon Center for Exiled and Suppressed Composers, which encourages greater awareness and more frequent performances of music by composers whose careers and lives were tragically cut short by the Nazi regime. Music Restored is made possible through the generous support of Marilyn Ziering and the Emma and Adam Zhu Foundation, alongside the many donors who are inspired by this important work.

PROGRAM INFORMATION
DVOŘÁK Nocturne in B Major
KAPRÁLOVÁ Partita for Piano and Strings
MARTINŮ Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani

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